Weeks, Arthur Le B.

WEEKS, Arthur LeBaron (1881-1962), a native of Saint John, New Brunswick, received his primary education there and later moved to Boston where he trained in several offices including that of Shepley, Ruttan & Coolidge (successors to Henry Hobson Richardson, who died in 1886). While working in that office, he met another young architect Ernest M. Machado, with whom he was to later form a partnership in Ottawa, Ont. Weeks was active in the following firms in Ottawa:
Machado & Weeks April -Sept. 1907
Weeks & Keefer 1908 - 1910
A. LeB. Weeks 1911-1913
Weeks & Burgess 1914

In April 1907, at the suggestion of Ernest Machado, a frequent visitor to the Ottawa area, they formed a partnership in April 1907, but their association ended abruptly in September of that year with the sudden death of Machado. Weeks then opened an office in partnership with Alan Keefer, and proved himself to be a talented and capable architect in his own right; together they obtained major commissions for commercial and institutional projects. Their best known work was the Rosenthal Building (1910), a six storey office block, and one of the first to employ a reinforced concrete structural frame and a cladding system of terra cotta.

Weeks worked under his own name in 1911-13, then formed another partnership with Cecil Burgess, who was formerly employed as an assistant in the office of Weeks & Keefer. Their association lasted only one year, and was terminated at the end of 1914. No information can be found on the activity of Weeks from 1915 to 1918. He left Canada and moved to Detroit in 1919 where he continued to work as an architect. By 1940, he had moved to Florida. He joined the American Institute of Architects in 1944 and remained as a member until 1954. He was also listed as a practising architect at Lake Worth, Florida (Florida Association of Architects Bulletin, viii, Sept. 1946). Weeks later died at Palm Beach, Fla. in April 1962.